Samuel Brown appears to be on track and will be ready to join his teammates in three months for the start of fall camp. It is certainly encouraging news for Rutgers, given that Brown flashed some serious potential last year.
A season-ending injury cut short a freshman campaign where Brown had wrestled away the starting job at the midpoint of the year. A former four-star recruit, Brown is a strong, physical running back out of Philadelphia who has some serious upside for Rutgers.
On 86 rushing attempts, Brown had 343 rushing yards and three touchdowns. He had 101 rushing yards (on 28 carries) with a touchdown in an October win over Indiana. In that game, Brown suffered his season-ending injury.
“Sam is going to be good to go when we start the summer program; he had surgery in the offseason,” Schiano told the Big Ten Network on Thursday when asked about the status of Brown.
“But I think we have a running backs room that’s probably our deepest room. And we have Kyle Monangai, we have Al-Shadee Salaam, Aaron Young – these are all guys that have played a lot of football. So we’re going to play a lot of backs. We’re gonna make sure nobody gets too tired.
“But you hit it on the head. Sam Brown is you know, he looks different. He feels different. I mean, he’s a real big, strong, very gifted running back.”
If he stays healthy and the offensive line shows some improvement, then Brown has the potential to be an All-Big Ten running back at Rutgers.
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Earlier in spring practice, Schiano said that Brown would not participate in spring practice.
His appearance on the Big Ten Network this week was in part to promote Saturday’s annual ‘Spring Game.’
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